Selected Publications
- CleanTax: A Framework for Reasoning about Taxonomies. Thau, D., Bowers, S., Ludaescher, B. (2009). AAAI Spring Symposium.
- Merging taxonomies under RCC-5 algebraic articulations. Thau, D., Bowers, S., Ludaescher, B. (2008). Proceedings of the 2nd International workshop on Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web 47–54.
- Reasoning about taxonomies and articulations. Thau, D. (2008). Proceedings of the EDBT Ph.D. Workshop,11–19.
- Reasoning about taxonomies in first-order logic.Thau, D. and Ludascher,B., (2007). Ecological Informatics 2(3), 195-209.
- Data Procurement for Enabling Scientific Workflows: On Exploring Inter-Ant Parasitism. Bowers, S., Thau, D., Williams, R., and Ludascher, B., (2004). Presented at the second International Semantic Web and Databases Workshop.
- The Book of JavaScript Programming for Nonprogrammers.
- Beginning and advanced JavaScript tutorials on Webmonkey
Past and Ongoing Projects
- PhD Program in Computer Science at UC Davis
- AntWeb (see, for example, my namesake ant Plectroctena thaui.)
- The All Species Foundation
- bianca.com
- Humboldt Instutute for Technological Studies
- Wired Digital: Webmonkey, Wired News, and HotBot
- Mother Jones